[81] [Moḥammad and Aḥmad are from the same root, _ḥamd_, meaning ‘praise;’ and both names were borne by the Prophet. The supposed prediction of Moḥammad’s coming arose, perhaps, from a confusion between Parakletos and Perikleitos or possibly Periklytos in Evang. S. Jo. xvi. 7, where the coming of ‘the Paraclete’ is promised; in some Arabic version of which the word may have been ignorantly rendered by ‘Aḥmad,’ and thus reported to Moḥammad.] [82] _By the description of him in their books._ [83] _The description of him._ [84] _In the Law._ [85] _Or miracles._ [86] _As Zechariah and John, and ye slew them._ [87] _Their belief, if the signs come._ The copies of the original differ in this verse, but not in an important manner. [88] _From the truth, so that they shall not believe._ [89] _The Ḳur-án._ [90] Or art mad. [91] _That is, with punishment._ [92] [The original copy kept by God.] [93] [This line is often inscribed on the covers of copies of the Ḳur-án.] [94] _In eloquence._ [95] [In orig. edition, and literally, ‘Although some of them assisted others.’] [96] _That they may be admonished._ [97] _And not sent an angel?_ [98] _Instead of mankind._ [99] _For no apostle is sent unto a people but one of their own kind._ [100] Forgery. [101] _Moḥammad._ [102] Chapter. [103] _To assist you._ [104] _The result of the threat that it containeth._ [105] _As to its being from God._ [106] _In eloquence and beauty of composition and information concerning what is unseen._ [107] _Your deities whom ye worship, that they may aid you._ [108] _When the unbelievers cavilled at abrogation, and said, ‘Moḥammad commandeth his companions to-day to do a thing and forbiddeth it tomorrow,’_ the following _was revealed_. [109] _Namely, a Christian slave whom the Prophet used to visit._ [The Mekkans accounted for the production of the Ḳur-án by an unlearned man like Moḥammad by ascribing it to the teaching of some Christian, whom is doubtful. Moḥammad’s reply is that the Christian’s was a foreign tongue, whilst the Ḳur-án was in Arabic.] [110] [‘As a further supply,’ orig. ed.] [111] [Lit. ‘Burdens:’ explained by El-Beyḍáwee and others _as buried treasures_ and as _dead_.] [112] _The most highly esteemed of property._ [113] [‘Be set on fire,’ orig. ed. Both these renderings, and also ‘be dried up,’ are supported by various authorities. See Lane: Lex. voce _sejera_.] [114] Woman-child. [115] _Of men’s actions._ [116] _As the skin is plucked off a_ slaughtered _sheep_. [117] _A kind of thorn which no beast eateth, by reason of its impurity._ [118] _Or eight ranks of them._ [119] _Unto a company, by reason of his joy thereat._ [120] _And it shall be said unto such._ [121] _And it shall be said unto the keepers of hell._ [122] _As it hath denied it in the present world._ [123] _Those who shall receive their books in their right hands._ [124] _How honourable shall they be!_ [125] _How contemptible shall they be!_